Install Lychee on an Ubuntu VPS

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Lychee on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with MariaDB, PHP-FPM and Nginx. Lychee is an easy-to-use self hosted photo management system. This guide should work on other Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS.

Final steps

Open http://yourLycheeSite.com/ in your favorite web browser and you should see the Lychee install screen. Provide the database information and click on the “Connect” button:

On the next screen you will be asked to create a new user:

That’s it. You have successfully installed Lychee on your Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. For more information about how to manage your Lychee installation, please refer to the Lychee website.

Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Linux VPS Hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to setup this for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.

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